French coffee

English

Noun

French coffee (countable and uncountable, plural French coffees)

1. (UK) Coffee mixed with chicory.
   • 1987, R.J. Clarke, R. Macrae, Coffee: Related Beverages, page 150:

     Also the first-named component has to be in excess of a given percentage (e.g. in the UK so-called French coffee has to contain at least 51% roasted coffee, the remainder being roasted chicory).

   • 2002, Indian Coffee: Bulletin of the Indian Coffee Board:

     In the old days, “French Coffee" (with Chicory mixed) used to be in green Colour, and pure Coffee used red Colour.

   • 2014, Dietrich von Hildebrand, John Henry Crosby, My Battle Against Hitler:

     Everything was very simple—typically French coffee, served in a bowl and strongly flavored with chicory, along with a piece of bread—yet I was received as an old friend.

   • 2014, Maddox Kent, The Writing Class, page 184:

     Emile has a taste for chicory-infused French coffees, a taste Alex doesn't share.